Kansas USA-1964: Cows Standing in Pen at County Fair While People Watch

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationKansas, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Kansas

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Cows Standing in Pen at County Fair While People Watch — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a group of brown and white Hereford cattle standing in a straw-covered pen at a Kansas county fair. The cows, with their distinctive white faces and legs, shift positions and graze while spectators watch from behind metal railings. The footage shows the natural movement of the animals in a rural agricultural setting, with a slightly grainy, warm color palette characteristic of Super 8 film from the era. The scene evokes a sense of mid-century Americana and rural life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124874873

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1964 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Kansas, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for documentary or educational requests needing 1960s Kansas county fair livestock footage from an 8mm home-movie source.
Period detail: The metal fair pens, straw bedding, parked cars and Hereford cattle may show a mid-1960s rural agricultural exhibition setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, watching cattle shift and stand in their pen while fairgoers look on from nearby railings.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include brown and white cattle, straw-covered ground, metal livestock railings, parked cars, spectators, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm footage shows warm color, visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure and handheld framing that fit a physical home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural fair cutaway, livestock insert, agricultural transition, or brief memory beat in a Midwestern 1960s sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents public livestock display at a county fair, emphasizing everyday rural recreation and animal showing rather than a staged event.
Research note: People appear in the background, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1964 Kansas county fair cattle, 8mm livestock pen footage, Hereford cows at fair, and vintage rural home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel fair material, then Kansas 1964 agricultural scenes, then broader vintage county fair or livestock footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Kansas fair footage showing brown and white Hereford cattle standing together in a straw-covered livestock pen. — Hereford cattle stand in a metal-railed pen at a county fair.

A Hereford cow stands with its head lowered in a Kansas county fair livestock pen, with rails and cars behind it. — A cow lowers its head inside the livestock pen.

Brown and white cattle move through a straw-covered pen at a 1964 Kansas fair, partly obscured by dark frame edges. — Cattle shift position within the fair pen.

Hereford cattle stand in a Kansas county fair pen while spectators and parked cars are visible beyond the metal railings. — Cattle stand near railings as fair visitors watch from behind them.

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